In rhetoric, a pericope (/pəˈrɪkəpiː/; Greek περικοπή, "a cutting-out") is a set of verses that forms one coherent unit or thought, suitable for public reading from a text, now usually of sacred scripture.
Its importance is mainly felt in, but not limited to, narrative portions of Sacred Scripture (as well as poetic sections).
Lectionaries are normally made up of pericopes containing the Epistle and Gospel readings for the liturgical year.
A pericope consisting of passages from different parts of a single book, or from different books of the Bible, and linked together into a single reading is called a concatenation or composite reading.
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